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BUTTON.

No. 375,137. Patented Dec. 20, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OREN O. DEVEREUX, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,137, dated December 20, 183'7. Application filed November 8, 1886. Serial No. 218,366. (No model.)

low, with the head separately formed and se-:

cured to the solid part of the post.

Figure 1 is an axial section of the integral post and shoe, the smaller upper end of the post being made solid and the larger lower portion hollow. Fig. 2 is an axial section, showing the combination of the same with a separately-formed head to form a collar-button.

In the accompanying drawings, A is the post, the smaller upper portion, a, of which is made solid, the expanding lower portion, 1), of the said post being made hollow, and provided with the integral outwardly-turned flange, c, which serves to form the shoe of the collar-button, as shown in Fig. 2.

Button-posts of flaring form for attachment to the separately-formed head of the button have heretofore been made entirely hollow from a plate of sheet metal, and also integral with the flange, which serves to form the shoe portion of the button; but the manufacture of such hollow posts is rendered expensive from the numerous operations required with the necessary intermediate annealing. There is and without the former waste of stock, and

such post and shoe can be readily formed of copper or other soft metal in a continuouslyoperated machine from a coil of wire. I

The head B of the collar-button may be either soldered to the solid end of the post, or riveted thereto, in which case the solid end will serve to form a secure fastening greatly superior to that formed by the similar attachment of the head B to the end of a tubular post.

I claim as my invention- Theherein-described button formed ofahead, shank, and shoe, the head being formed separately from thepost or shank, and adapted to be attached to the end of the same, the said shank being formed solid at its end to receive the separately-formed head, and at the opposite end being formed hollow, with its sides flared outwardly comprising the shoe, substantially as described.

OREN c. DEVEBEUX.

Witnesses:

SOCRATES SCHQLFIELD, HENRY F. J ENKS. 

